Das Ende eines erfolglosen Oppositionspolitikers: Kemal Kilicdaroglu

Das politische Schicksal von Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu ist nun besiegelt, nachdem unter es unter seiner Führung der CHP nicht gelungen ist, in den den letzten Wahlen in der Türkei gegen Erdogan zu gewinnen:

Turkey’s main opposition party on Sunday voted to sack veteran leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and replaced him with an unproven former pharmacist, months after its alliance was bitterly defeated in the elections by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 

The secular Republican People’s Party (CHP), the largest opposition party and oldest political force in Turkey, replaced Kilicdaroglu with Ozgur Ozel, a relatively unknown member of the party, after the latter won in the party’s congress by 812 to the former’s 536 votes. 

Turkey held presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14. Erdogan’s alliance, led by his Justice and Development Party (AKP), won a majority of seats in the legislature, but no presidential candidate passed the mandatory 50% mark and a run-off vote was held on May 28 when Erdogan took 52.14 percent of the votes, while Kilicdaroglu received only 47.86 percent. 

Since losing the vote, Kilicdaroglu has received strong criticism from within the ranks of his own party, blaming him for the string of losses in elections. 

Ozel speaks German and English and was the deputy parliamentary group chairman of CHP. A pharmacist, he became the head of Turkey’s pharmacists association and was elected to parliament in 2011.